Sunday, June 26, 2005

Getting Started

I have resisted this as long as I could. A couple of weeks ago, David Hoggard called me on the phone and on one of those rare ocassions when I answer my home phone, we spoke about me starting a blog.

I explained to him at the time that I was a little afraid of the amount of work and attention that needed to be paid to blogging to do it effectively, but he insisted that he thought I had some things worth saying and volunteered to set it up for me. Needless to say, I didn't stop thinking about what had suggested.

I recently returned from Mississippi with a lot of stuff that I need to share with people here. I had gone to speak at the 41st memorial service for the deaths of the three civil rights workers -- Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman -- in Neshoba County back in 1964. There is much more to write about that and how it relates to this community -- its history and its future -- than I can possibly put in my bi-weekly newspaper columns or talk about on my radio talk show.

My talk show co-host insisted recently like Hoggard that I had things that I had a responsibility to share and that setting up a blog would be easy. I finally relented. Here it is. The thanks and the blame go to David Hoggard and Joya Wesley although the content will be mine. I hope that the readers who stumble across these musings will gain something from them and hopefully join in an expanding dialog that promises to enrich us all.

Your important and insightful voice will be a great addition to the Greensboro blogging community. I have benefited from my reading of several area blogs but I know that you will add greatly to the discussions. Great decision! I was interviewed today by Fox 8 at New Garden Friends Meeting. I was suppose to be their critical voice about the war in Iraq because they did a 5:00 pm segment today about Bush's speech tomorrow at Fort Bragg. They taped 10 minutes of my comments and used two very short sentences without any real context. The advantage of these blogs is the ability to have a more honest and transparent conversation -- at least more than a TV sound bite.

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About Me

I am a community activist and social critic. I have just become the Executive Director of the new Fund for Democratic Communities.
After graduating as a Presidential Scholar from Little Rock Central High School in 1967, I went on to Cornell University where I was the leader of the Black student organization struggling for Black Studies. I left Cornell to teach at Malcolm X Liberation University in Greensboro. When it closed I remained in NC to do labor and community organizing.
I volunteer in the public schools. Often I find myself agreeing with students who are considered difficult as they critique how boring and irrelevant school is. But I also enjoy sharing with them how exciting and liberating authentic learning can be.
I have worked over 35 years in industry and for nearly 30 years on my current job as a Senior Electronics Specialist. I sometimes play jazz flute and recently worked on the score for a short movie. Fun! If no one stops me I will even play blues guitar and sing.
I love to read, to write, and to try to understand the world to make it better. My two favorite things are truth and beauty. There is not enough of either in most folks lives.